180K views · 2.7K reactions | One of these perspectives understands progress. The other romanticizes suffering.
Humans weren't "gifted" a paradise. We were born into a brutal, indifferent natural world where most children died before age five, where famine was routine, where a simple infection could kill you, where life expectancy was 30 years.
Nature didn't give us abundance. It gave us scarcity, predators, disease, and starvation. We fought our way out of that nightmare through innovation, trade, and yes, capitalism.
Debt isn't oppression. It's a tool that lets people access capital before they've saved it. It funds businesses, homes, and education.
Capitalism isn't exploitation. It's the system that created the wealth to cure diseases, build infrastructure, and produce so much food that obesity, not starvation, is now the leading health crisis.
The reply treats "trees, fruit, water, animals, and sunshine" like they were enough. They weren't. Without technology, medicine, and markets, those things sustained maybe a few million humans in constant survival mode. | Students For Liberty
One of these perspectives understands progress. The other romanticizes suffering.
Humans weren't "gifted" a paradise. We were born into a bru...